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germinating

ADJECTIVE
budding
Synonyms
STRONGEST
burgeoning fledgling growing incipient nascent promising
STRONG
beginning blossoming germinal maturing opening potential pullulating sprouting vegetating young
WEAK
bursting forth embryonic fresh pubescent shooting up
Antonyms
WEAK
dying shrinking withering
ADJECTIVE
growing
Synonyms
STRONGEST
burgeoning developing expanding flourishing spreading thriving viable
STRONG
amplifying animate augmenting budding crescent dilating enlarging fructifying living maturing mushrooming pullulating sprouting stretching swelling waxing
WEAK
crescive
Antonyms
STRONGEST
failing languishing
STRONG
dead dying shrinking
WEAK
lessening withering

Example Sentences

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Don’t trample or pick the flowers and stay on the paths because even barren ground could have seeds germinating beneath.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

And while the concept for the memorial is still germinating, Nina has already pinned down the title.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

Deadwood-decomposing fungi feed germinating orchids, providing the carbon their tiny seeds don't have.

From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025

As Lee and Johnsen prepare for the next growing season, they’re nurturing hundreds of plants inside the atrium of their home as well as germinating and starting new plants from seedlings.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024

I put the drawing of the man with the germinating brain in my room on the wall where I can see it when I roll over.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan